Evil bloke
But why do people trust ANYTHING private to anyone's so called "cloud"
A man in Northamptonshire, UK, has been quizzed by cops investigating attempts by a hacker to sell the private photographs of Pippa Middleton – the sister to the Duchess of Cambridge. This weekend, The Sun reported that someone using the nickname "Crafty Cockney" contacted it with an offer of the contents of Ms Middleton's …
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.. how easy it is to get the police to investigate if you're connected. Same thing happens to you they're not interested; I know because similar happened to my sister and I know who did it and can prove it and point them in the direction of reliable third party evidence they can obtain legally and without fuss and they won't even discuss it.
Any system is like this, starting from the bottom is always painful.
Imagine that your calling an Indian call centre or support that's been outsourced to Capita. Great effort is devoted in most organisations to ensuring that problems don't make it up sucessive layers. The first line is always "hope they go away" followed by trying to make it difficult enough that you give up.
Getting to the second line is quite difficult. Getting to third line is nigh on impossible.
Starting at the top and working down is quite a lot easier, especially if "the top" is the Queen who everybody in the police force swears allegience to. She probably made a call to "Sir Stratospherically Senior, CBE" asking them if they could find time at their convenience to look at $issue.
Imagine the effect this would have in your orginisation. In mine, the issue would descend from board level like a descending bomb, with everybody scattering out of the way until it hits somebody who can deal with it, probably in IT terms the sort of third line people who are locked away with armed guards posted at the door to keep users or first/second line techs away from them.
It then gets handled by Her Majesties Courts and Tribunal Service with the sort of efficiency that most people can only dream of, when the court clerk realises that "the Queen versus criminal" in this particular case is somewhat more litteral than the proforma it is in most cases.
Pretend it doesn't happen everwhere. When the CEO logs an incident on his assistants printer, does he wait as long as somebody reporting a similar issue in admin support? No?
No doubt, just find it fascinating the way it works. It shouldn't really be too difficult to get the police to investigate what should technically be considered serious crime (parliament intentionally wrote it that way when they created the law).
For my part I still have the official complaints procedure and talking to MPs about it to go through before I give up any hope it'll be sorted through the criminal justice system like it aught to be. You'd think the police would be glad to deal with this stuff in a world of targets and detection rates.
As for the comic that is the Sun, they (and Rupert the owner) still have not apologised for the lies they printed about Hillsborough all those years ago.
Many outlets on Merseyside still won't sell the rag.
At least this time they seem to have done the decent thing but it is still a reprehensible rag an no, I'm not a Liverpool supporter
Not true, actually. They did apologise four years ago.
Skinny non-entity who was once 'famous by association' gets free publicity, has she got a book coming out ?
Really? That's what you took from the story? For me it was 'Person made famous by dint of being related to someone has deeply personal information stolen by scumbag who then attempted to profit'.
Hey ho.
There are many people whose fame seems curious and unfathomable to me. Siblings of the future Queen hardly fall into the celeb big brother bracket though do they?